Life Ambulance showed no signs of collapse

Employees had little warning of private EMS's impending closure

6:30 AM,
Dec. 10, 2013

Doors at Life Ambulance in the industrial park off Delano Road at Ohio 159 simply state 'Business is closed.' Workers from Life and affiliated private ambulance services across Ohio and seven other states unexpectedly learned operations were shuttering Friday.

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Emergency medical technicians across Ohio, including Chillicothe's Life Ambulance, and in other states are wondering why the private ambulance service that employed them shut down without notice Friday.

First Med EMS, based in Wilmington, N.C., appears to be the parent company of various private EMS companies that abruptly shut down Friday. American Ambulette & Ambulance Service in Dayton appears to own Ohio's shuttered stations of Life Ambulance, First Med, and MedCorp.

According to online records from the Ohio Secretary of State's Office, the company just updated its business ...